Google and Verizon's net neutrality proposals examined, we wave goodbye to Google Wave, find out about a Facebook users' union, look at the last.fm of academic study - Mendeley, and hear Charles Leadbeater's thoughts on using the web to collaborate

A man on his mobile in front Verizon building in New York. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA

Tuesday 10 August 2010 12.36 EDT
First published on Tuesday 10 August 2010 12.36 EDT

Aleks Krotoski is joined in the studio by Jemima Kiss, Robert Andrews and mendeley.com's Victor Henning for this week's packed programme. The team tackle the web: collaboration, governance and net neutrality before sliding smoothly into a discussion of social innovation with Charles Leadbeater.

First up, what does the Google-Verizon deal mean for how we access the web and who can build content for it? The team are divided. What do you think?

In other Google news, what happened to Wave? Jemima and Robert weigh in on why the search engine's aggregated email/instant message/collaboration service failed to live up to expectations, and what this means for the "iterate and iterate often" culture of web development.

Richard Buchanan phones in to talk about the Facebook users' union, a new group on the social network that seeks compensation from Mark Zuckerberg himself for the data the site keeps about its membership. Jemima throws in a bit of business advice, free of charge.

Victor pitches mendeley.com, a collaborative tool and social networking facility for researchers, and discusses the ways the web has challenged intellectual property and academic discourse. He proposes a few changes he'd like to see in how research is published and shared.

Finally, Charles Leadbeater, author of We Think, tells Aleks how important web openness is for social innovation.

All this, plus the team's predictions on who would win in a playground fight – Apple, Facebook or Google – on this week's Tech Weekly.